Jointly organised by The Middle East Centre & The Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (OSGA) About the seminar: Women’s military service has dual meanings: on the one hand, it includes women... Read more

Abstract: Much analysis of the European Union (EU) has focused on the process of “ever closer union”. The Junker 2022 plan is one example of this approach. The key question in the alternative... Read more

China’s re-emergence and its assertive policies in the South China Sea over the past decades have led to the belief that Southeast Asia has no choice but to become part of China’s zone of influence.... Read more

Joint event with the Oxford Arab Society. Copies of the book will be available on sale for £5 (cash only!). About the seminar: The Middle East is the mysterious land of veils, minarets and... Read more

Hindu Muslim Relations: What Europe Might Learn from India In his latest book, Joerg Friedrichs reconstructs Hindu-Muslim relations from a European standpoint. Drawing from the Indian context, he... Read more

Abstract The difference between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia over the name of the small country dominated the bilateral relations between the two countries since 1991,... Read more

In 2014, the centenary of the outbreak of the Great War, SEESOX arranged a symposium at St Antony’s putting the spotlight on South East Europe, the region in which the initial spark of the... Read more

Traditional approaches to territorial conflicts would suggest that the value of a disputed territory—be it strategic, economic, religious, or historical—drives conflict. Standard explanations of the... Read more

Citizens of Nowhere, unite? Europe might seem like a continent pulling itself apart: ten years of economic and political crisis have pitted North versus South, East versus West, citizens versus... Read more

Jointly organised by The Middle East Centre & The Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (OSGA) Abstract: In the early decades of the twentieth century, as the European literary enclaves of... Read more

This panel discussion will address the situation in Turkey after the presidential elections of 24 June 2018 from a constitutional, foreign policy and political economy perspectives. Mehmet Karli will... Read more